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5
Beds
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3.5
Baths
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3,058 sq ft
Home Size
per Realist
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6,600 sq ft
Lot Size
per county records
Overview
Updated Luxury on a Premier Street Blocks to Downtown
With roots dating back to 1929, combined with designer updates for 21st century living, this home defines the essence of the Aragon neighborhood, one of the most sought after in San Mateo. Classic Spanish appeal defines the exterior, from the perfectly selected color palette to the red tile roof and brick walkways, all framed by manicured lawn, boxwood hedges, and colorful, mature landscaping. Inside, parquet wood floors, glass doorknobs, period-style lighting, and an adobe-style fireplace recall the home’s early heritage. Adding luxurious designer panache is the remodeled kitchen and upstairs bathrooms with high-end finishes. A tremendous skylight in the kitchen adds amazing natural light, the adjoining breakfast room is an enchanting spot for casual meals, and the family room offers wonderful space for today’s style of living.
Personal accommodations comprise 5 spacious bedrooms arranged over two levels. There are two bedrooms on the main level, ideal for guests or as home office space, with a large bathroom featuring classic tile appointments plus a separate powder room that serves the main living areas. Upstairs, the master suite includes a sumptuous Carrara marble bath, plus there are two additional bedrooms and a remodeled bath, also finished in Carrara marble. Adding the finishing touch is a concealed laundry area conveniently located upstairs, a partial basement for storage, and a detached 2-car garage. Fast, reliable gigabit fiber internet supports working from home and pristine video call quality. Inviting play and outdoor entertaining is the large backyard with patio space, lawn, and mature foliage for added privacy. Colorful and fragrant blooms surround the home for many months of the year. Rounding out the appeal of this outstanding home is its access to excellent local schools, including acclaimed Baywood Elementary, and just blocks to Central Park, the San Mateo Main Library and downtown San Mateo.
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Built in
1929
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Listed
5 years ago
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Neighborhood
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Schools
Baywood Elementary, Borel Middle School, Aragon HIgh School (buyer to veirify)
Amenities
Circa 1929 with classic Spanish architectural style and beautifully updated interiors
5 bedrooms and 3.5 baths on two levels
Approximately 3,050 square feet of living space
Impressive front entrance framed by manicured lawn and boxwood hedges lining a brick walkway to the entrance
Divided light glass front door and matching sidelights opens to the foyer with parquet wood floors beneath a barrel vaulted ceiling with iron pendant light
Elegant formal living room featuring barrel vaulted ceiling with iron chandelier, parquet wood floor, and signature front window flanked by recessed shelving; an adobe-style fireplace is outlined in original tiles and topped with a simple wood mantle
Double French doors open to the formal dining room with coved ceiling, chandelier, and three side-by-side operable front windows; parquet wood finishes the floor
Charming breakfast room with windows on three sides features original built-in china cabinetry with glass fronts and serving counter
Remodeled chef’s kitchen has white cabinetry topped with beautiful, custom counters and subway-set white-tiled backsplashes; a huge skylight adds abundant natural light
Stainless steel appliances include an LG gas range with griddle and 2 ovens, KitchenAid dishwasher, and Frigidaire refrigerator
Inviting family room, just off the kitchen, has a ceiling light and recessed lighting, hardwood floors, and French doors to the patio and rear yard
Two main-level bedrooms (one without benefit of closet) are served by an updated bath with pedestal sink, tiled wainscot, tub, and separate shower with decorative glass door
Upstairs master bedroom suite has a lighted fan, crown molding with dentil detail, and organized walk-in closet; remodeled en suite bath with skylight, Carrara marble tile floor, furniture-style mercury glass mirrored vanity with two sinks and Carrara marble counter, tub, and separate frameless glass shower
Two additional upstairs bedrooms, one with ceiling light and one with lighted fan, are served by a remodeled bath in Carrara marble with dual-sink vanity, tub with overhead shower surrounded in white tile, and private commode room
Other features include: powder room with beadboard wainscot; upstairs laundry with Samsung washer and Kenmore dryer; partial basement for storage; detached 2-car garage; gated driveway
The home is wired for symmetric gigabit fiber internet, which regularly achieves full gigabit speeds and 8 ms latency; consistently supports pristine video calls; ideal for working from home
Outside, the fenced rear yard offers plenty of space for entertaining and play; colorful and established plantings surround the home including purple and white wisteria, white jasmine, bougainvillea, azaleas, hydrangeas, camelia, roses, and freesias creating a beautiful and fragrant atmosphere for both outdoor and indoor enjoyment
Lot size of approximately 6,600 square feet
Outstanding, family-filled neighborhood featuring tree-lined streets with sidewalks just blocks to Central Park, San Mateo Main Library, downtown San Mateo, and San Mateo and Hayward Park Caltrain Stations
Excellent San Mateo schools include Baywood Elementary, Borel Middle, and Aragon High
San Mateo
Aragon
Aragon has some of the best floor plans for good-sized homes in San Mateo, and, despite its elevated home prices, offers excellent value for the dollar compared to its slightly pricier neighbor, Baywood, which is just a few minutes closer to downtown. (The neighborhood is west of El Camino, east of Alameda, and north of the 92 freeway.) Most recent Aragon sales have all landed north of $3 million, with neighborhood homes selling between $3 and $3.9 million and a median of $3.19 million.
As a neighborhood with decades of cache, Aragon has attracted owners unafraid to put a personal stamp on their homes. Original Aragon construction was somewhat modest; the neighborhood’s imposing homes often had only two bedrooms. Over time, most Aragon real estate has been upgraded and expanded to where most now have at least three bedrooms and more than 2,000 square feet of living space.
Aragon takes its place not only among San Mateo’s finest neighborhoods, but among those of the entire county. Whatever the state of the overall housing market, Aragon will always sit atop many homebuyers’ wish lists.
To view a detailed google map of the Aragon neighborhood, click here. The MLS area is 436.
Favorable
Excellent, central location
Leafy, tree lined streets
Homes tend to have a lot of character and a historic feel
Homes are on the larger side for San Mateo
Adverse
Homes are more expensive than most in San Mateo
Slightly smaller lots than neighboring Baywood, but comparable to Burlingame
San Mateo has it all: a diversity of neighborhoods, great parks, easy access, a plethora of shopping, and home to many businesses and an anchor for employment on the peninsula. With a rich heritage, dating back to the turn of the century with its most famous resident being A.P. Giannini, the founder of the Bank of Italy and later Bank of America, San Mateo offers a delightful spread of activity for all. The downtown area is studded with delicious restaurants and a variety of retail stores, and also boasts a 12 screen movie theatre and one of the largest wine cellars in the country, at Draeger’s Grocery Store. Shopping abounds at Hillsdale and Bridgepointe as well as the many neighborhood shopping centers.
Perhaps the most well known natural area is Coyote Point, a rock outcropped peninsula that juts into San Francisco Bay and home to a natural history museum, the Peninsula Humane Society, windsurfing, a private marina, and large picnic areas with uplifting vistas. Within walking distance of downtown, Central Park has something for everyone: ride the toy train, pick up a game of tennis, take a serene walk through the Japanese Garden, have a picnic while listening to Thursday evening’s Jazz in the Park, or enjoy the playgrounds.
San Mateo attracts a variety of homeowners, from those seeking their first home in the upcoming neighborhoods of the Village, Parkside, or Shoreview, to those looking for more a little more space in Hillsdale or the Meadows, to larger families seeking the spaciousness offered by San Mateo Park, Baywood, and Aragon.
- Small town feel
- Big-city downtown amenities with a small town residential neighborhood feel
- Diverse housing
- Very diverse housing opportunities ranging from downtown condos to suburban ranches and secluded San Mateo Park mansions
- Top schools
- Baywood schools ranked among the state’s best
Early San Mateo was a place of large estates and boldface names familiar to anyone who’s driven the town’s streets. Parrott, Hayward, Borel—these were the wealthy pioneers who sowed the seeds that eventually grew into today’s modern city of 100,000 residents. San Mateo was borne from their needs and later from their subdivided land, all around a stagecoach stop established in 1849 by Nicolas de Peyster on former Ohlone tribal land.
A Note From The Sellers
When we first saw 18 Aragon Blvd, we loved the family-filled neighborhood and were enamored with the gorgeous wood floors and light-filled rooms.
Our first spring and summer in the house, we were so enchanted with everything that bloomed in the yard. It felt like a new surprise blossomed every week, and for each warm season that followed, we filled our kitchen window ledge and little nooks throughout the house with sweet-smelling cuttings from our own garden.
During the first year, we worked with an architect to completely overhaul the kitchen, expanding it, modernizing it to fit our needs and installing wood flooring to seamlessly match that in the rest of the house. Our favorite -- most precious -- spot in the kitchen became the coffee nook, equipped with a pull-out shelf and electrical outlet within the cabinet underneath, where we could stash our coffee grinder. We started each day right there with a freshly ground and brewed cup of coffee. And we will forever have fond memories of peaceful mornings in the breakfast room, watching the hummingbirds flit around the wisteria blooming right outside the windows.
We welcomed our daughter in the summer of 2016, and our home became much more lively! The downstairs floor plan features a continuous loop linking all the main rooms together, and it’s fun to remember how our daughter progressed around that loop: first clumsily wheeling herself around the loop in her walker, then pushing her toy shopping cart, and eventually, endless games of “monster chase” running around the loop, shrieking with laughter.
We appreciated having the downstairs bedrooms as a guest room for visiting family and home office space. John works for a tech company in Palo Alto and frequently worked from home, even before the shelter-in-place started, so having dedicated space for a home office was invaluable. Notably, video calls from home via the symmetric gigabit fiber internet were consistently even better quality than video calls from his Palo Alto office.
Our home and backyard hosted many planned and impromptu get-togethers over the years. It was perfect for our daughter’s birthday parties; the fenced-in backyard meant we parents could all fully relax and let the kids play, knowing they were safely contained.
We loved our close proximity to everything: being walking distance to storytime at the Main Library and Central Park with its open space, playground, miniature train that ran on weekends and holidays, Japanese garden (our daughter loved watching the koi fish feedings), and ice skating rink during the winter months. We loved being able to walk to downtown San Mateo for date nights, and the easy access to 92, 101 and 280 for driving elsewhere in the area. Plus, when commuting by Caltrain, John appreciated starting the day with a short, peaceful walk through Central Park to the Caltrain station, as well as the convenience of being able to swing by Draeger’s to pick something up on the walk home.
We were also blessed with amazing neighbors up and down the street -- the kind you can borrow butter from or share surplus watermelon with (which we frequently did) -- and enjoyed an annual block party each summer when all the neighbors came together with food, yard games, and a blow-up water slide.
We cherished our time in this beautiful home and this wonderful neighborhood, and we hope the new owner of 18 Aragon finds the same happiness here that we did.
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